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Where to look?
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Change the dictionary definition of “Sell” – leave a comment, pass the word on

I’m passionate about the sales profession and I am ready to take action against anything that supports the negative stereotypes about sales people.

Take the following Concise Oxford English Dictionary definition of “sell” (edited to include just the directly relevant points) :

verb 1 hand over in exchange for money. 3 (of goods) attain sales. 6 persuade someone of the merits of.
Their definition barely touches on what selling as a profession – your profession – actually is. Consider the following;
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Sales Horror Stories!

We all get it wrong sometimes. I’ve just come across the book Sales Autopsy which tells painful stories of sales people getting it really quite badly wrong. Try this one, for example. Ouch.

I’ve asked author Dan Seidman for a copy to review so hopefully we can dig deeper in blog posts to come!

Control card rage

Seth Godin makes a good point about business cards in this post :

“In an era where no one dresses up anymore, they give you a chance to position yourself, to represent who you are and what you do in a three cent piece of paper. And yet… almost all business cards are terrible.”
True, but just be careful to avoid card rage (office-safe clip from American Psycho movie)!

What would you do in this situation?

There’s a story in sales job hunting folklore where the smugly smiling interviewer plucks out a pen from his jacket pocket and say, “Sell me this pen”. What would you say? Here are the options I came up with:

• Wind up the interview and walk out (on the basis that if you get the job you will be working for crappy management with an old school approach)
• Sell it “consultatively” – Establish their situation, identify pains, etc (“How do you currently record information? How would you like to change your current situation if you could?” etc ). This could be an exceptionally difficult sell… it’s likely to be a highly undifferentiated product and if the interviewer decides to make life difficult for you are really in trouble!

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More sales trickery from Gitomer

I won’t be using them, but you can’t help but chuckle at sales comedian, sorry, I mean guru, Jeffrey Gitomer’s two ideas for getting voicemails returned.

(Tell me if you find any funny/useful sales videos online and I’ll post ‘em here. Thanks.)

Bad behaviour from the Eighties

It’s 8 mins or so but worth watching. By the way tell me if you find any funny/useful sales videos online and I’ll post ‘em here.

Tough sales management from sales film Glengarry Glen Ross (bad language warning…)